Socrates.
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means to set it aside: thus you will enjoy a peaceful and honorable old age, and the gods and goddesses will bless you.
SOCRATES.
Soldiers, conduct me to prison immediately.
[He is carried off.
ANITUS.
This fellow is incorrigible; but it's not my fault; I have done my duty, and have nothing to reproach myself with: he must be abandoned as a reprobate, and left to die in his sins.
End of the Second Act.
ACT III.SCENE I.
THE JUDGES seated on the Tribunal, SOCRATES below.
JUDGE.
[To Anitus.
You should not sit here, you are priest of Ceres.
ANITUS.
I am only here for edification.
MELITUS.
Silence there: Socrates, you are accused of being a bad citizen, of corrupting youth, of denying a plurality of gods, of being a heretic, deist, and atheist: answer to the charge.
SOCRATES.
Judges of Athens, I exhort you all to be as good citizens as I have always myself endeavored to be: to shed your blood for your country, as I have done in many a battle: with regard to youth, guide